The Department of Astronomy and Space, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science, has organized a lecture entitled “Space Debris” in the presence of a number of students, professors and those concerned with the physical affairs.
The lecture aimed to introduce this term that defines a group of waste from the remnants of satellites available in Earth orbit, in its first appearance in the mid-twentieth century, coinciding with the beginning of the space race, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik-1, the first satellite in history to go into orbit around the Earth, on October 4, 1957. The lecture that was presented by Dr. Fouad Mahmoud Abdullah who gave a review of this space phenomenon, after the world began to show interest in these remnants, indicating that the aforementioned satellite was small by today’s standards, while now satellites have become large and very many in number, which is something that led to a problem of their collision with satellites and space stations or their fall to Earth.
